Visual Studio Data : Visual FoxPro

Hotfixes for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 Are now available for download on CodeGallery

MilindLele — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:31:58 GMT

Since Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 was released in late 2007, we have released three hotfixes. The third, latest of these hotfixes was published recently. All three hotfixes are now available for download on MSDN CodeGallery. It is no longer necessary to contact Microsoft Support to obtain these hotfixes.

The hotfixes can be downloaded from the following links:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/kb948528
Hotfix for Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2 to fix the issue where a toolbar on an SDI form gets disabled.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB952548
Fixes the issue where records from another user session that violate the criteria for a parent table are displayed in the browse window for a child table in a Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2 multiuser environment.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB968409
Hotfix for a reporting issue where the group header of a data grouping is not printed at the top of each page as expected after you install Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2.

Visual FoxPro October CTP is live

MilindLele — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:16:00 GMT

The October letter from the editor (http://msdn.com/vfoxpro/letters) is now live. This announces the October CTP of Sedna and SP2 for Visual FoxPro.

The CTP previews several enhancements: Enhancements to Reporting, SQL Server Upsizing Wizard and DataExplorer. It also includes earlier components: NET4COM and the MY library for VFP.

Visual FoxPro "Sedna" June 2006 CTP Released

MilindLele — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:09:00 GMT

Today we released the June 2006 CTP of VFP “Sedna”. It is available for download here. I’ve also published the monthly letter: http://msdn.com/vfoxpro/letters that contains information about this CTP.

Yag moves on and stays at the same time (by yag)

YAG — Fri, 05 May 2006 08:38:00 GMT

As many of you know, after a major release, people at Microsoft tend to look around to see what they’d like to work on next. After working on two releases of Visual Studio and a similar number of releases of Visual FoxPro, I’ve accepted a position in Microsoft.com as an architect focusing on our community products.

I accepted this position because it marries the community issues that I’m so passionate about, with the ability to quickly and immediately touch our customers around the world. In essence, I will be responsible for a multi-release plan developing a platform that includes the following:

a. blogs.msdn.com,

b. forums.microsoft.com,

c. on-line chats,

d. CodeZone search,

e. GotDotNet

f. and others…

We want to turn this into a platform that every division in Microsoft can use to quickly build their own unique community presence and push that presence out to their partners in the community.

Given that this involves architecture, cross-division impact and customer presence, I just couldn’t say no. It’s been an amazing four years here in DevDiv – getting to work on multiple releases of VB, Data Tools and VFP.

In Visual Studio 2005 we made data easier to work with, something we’ll be improving in Orcas. We’ve also got LINQ coming down the pike – deeply integrating querying and data capabilities into VB and C# - something that I think will quickly become a capability that is considered a “must have” for any general purpose programming languages. Now I look forward to helping build tools that make it easier for everyone to work more closely with our customers.

In Visual FoxPro, we’ve revamped the report writer, improved its extensibility and deepened its integration with SQL Server and .NET.

Speaking of Visual FoxPro, the folks at MSCOM have been good enough to let me continue to drive that forward as we work on Sedna. So, I’ll still be the person responsible for VFP, working with Calvin, Milind and the rest of the team. As you can see, I’ll still have one foot in DevDiv. <g> However, I don’t feel right posting to the VS Data blog, so I’ve created a new one here (where I'll be cross-posting this). Come by for more details on the new position, Visual FoxPro, life, the universe and everything. Note that VFP is staying in the Data Team, so Milind (and any others who want to) will continue blogging here. I just think it’s time I get a personal blog – like Ken and Calvin.

One last note to the VS Data team: you all rock – I know you’re working on some amazing things for the future. I look forward to working with it all in my new role.

Visual FoxPro Monthly Letter

MilindLele — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:28:00 GMT

Today I published the April 2006 letter for Visual FoxPro.

Incidentally, in that letter I mentioned that the Team System team is about to release a MSCCI provider for Team Foundation Server which includes support for Visual FoxPro 9.0. Then this afternoon YAG sent me an email saying that the beta for the MSCCI is already available for download!

Latest OzFoxRocks podcast

MilindLele — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:42:00 GMT

ttp://www.ozfoxrocks.com/Default.aspx?tabid=57

In this podcast Craig and Scott discuss design and testing, and a chat with Craig Boyd about Vista and Visual FoxPro 'Sedna'.

In the introduction they talk about Ken Levy, his great work with FoxPro and the community -- and they give me a warm and hillarious welcome to the Fox world!

Visual FoxPro ‘Sedna’ March CTP now online (by Milind)

MilindLele — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:35:00 GMT

We have released the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of Sedna. This March 2006 CTP includes the latest build of NET4COM — a library of COM wrappers around a selected subset of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. We will release other CTPs periodically. Each CTP will have incrementally increasing functionality and latest builds of Sedna until we release a full public beta later this year.

VFP and Team Foundation Server (by yag)

YAG — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:27:00 GMT

As I've mentioned, we're always looking at ways to connect Visual FoxPro and Visual Studio. More and more of our VFP customers are also using .NET for various purposes.

At PDC, John Miller (jMM) asked me if we'd be hooking up VFP and Team Foundation Server - particularly for source code control. Well, in the latest beta of the MSSCCI, that connectivity works. Andrew Coates has the information on how to set things up (make sure to scroll down to the end - some of the information comes after the sidebar).

So now, those of you using Team System can use work item tracking (bugs, features, etc.) and source code control in your VFP application development efforts.

Visual FoxPro feature overview available online (by yag)

YAG — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:48:00 GMT

One thing that we've been working towards for a while is getting the community involved earlier in our development processes. This is something that's happening across the developer division. We're pleased to let y'all know that we've posted overview documents for three of the features coming in Sedna. As we've mentioned before, Sedna is all about interoperability with Windows Vista, .NET, SQL Server and Office and extensibility. The documents help cement that.

DDEX Provider for VFP Data - this document discusses integrating VFP Data with Visual Studio 2005.
Net4COM - this document describes how we'll be bringing the capability of accessing parts of the .NET framework that bring additional value to VFP developers.
Sedna Reporting Features - this document describes new capabilities in extending reporting even beyond where VFP9 goes.

I'm really glad that we could provide these, and we look forward to making even more available over time.

Ken goes Live! (by yag)

YAG — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:32:00 GMT

Had to borrow the title from Andrew. Ken Levy, our VFP Product Manager is moving on to a Product Planning position in Windows Live. It's been awesome working with him these past few years. For those who don't know, Ken used to work with me at my own company, Flash Creative Management, around 10 years back, and it was a lot of fun doing it again.

I know he's going to do an awesome job with this new responsibility - and I'm pretty sure that 10 years from now, we're going to end up working together again <g> - that's just the way he and I seem to work...

Just wanted to wish you the best, buddy - and I'll still catch you for movies...

Cool VFP Tool and Welcome Tom! (by yag)

YAG — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:56:00 GMT

Just wanted to provide some quick pointers to two new VFP resources:

A Win32 API viewer for VFP developers. You can access it via the web or download and register an offline version (in a VFP database) that can be updated whenever the API is added to.
Tom Meeks (an old friend) is blogging on his VFP Start site. He's focused on tips for new VFP developers. Welcome, Tom!

VFP on Product Feedback site (by yag)

YAG — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:25:00 GMT

As Ken notes, Visual FoxPro has now been added to the MSDN Product Feedback site. While we will obviously continue to look at enhancement requests and bug notices from the usual community sites like the UT, Wiki, etc., this has the advantage of going directly into our internal tracking systems and giving you automatic updates as we update the status of the report. Check it out!

Updated list of bug fixes in VFP SP1 (by MilindL)

vsdata — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:55:00 GMT

The VFP SP1 Beta download page has an updated list of bugs fixed in this service pack. Based on user feedback from online forums we have refreshed the content, including formating and better organization of the bugs by feature categories.

Also, the Visual FoxPro October Newsletter is now online. Check it out for latest updates and announcements from the VFP team.

Tragic News (by yag)

YAG — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:27:00 GMT

I got an email today that an old friend and a long time VFP MVP, Drew Speedie and his son Brent died on Friday while hiking in Yellowstone Park. Drew and I spent many years speaking at the same conferences all around the world – and he was one of the speakers that could invariably find something new and interesting to discuss in his sessions. His son, Brent, came to many of the conferences, and I remember him proofreading conferences reports written at European conferences for the Universal Thread.

Our entire team offers our condolences to Drew’s family. They’ll be missed.

UPDATE: We just got this information from Russ Swall at Drew's company:

We have built a memorial site for Drew and Brent. We will continue to add information as it becomes available. It also includes a forum and some photos. If you have pix you'd like to share, please send me an e-mail with a link to them or we can arrange to put your photos on that site.

http://drewspeediememorial.visionpace.com/

Thanks to all who have contributed their experiences and condolences. We will be passing them along to Irene when she returns to Scottsdale.

Project LINQ - Language INtegrated Query (by yag)

YAG — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:22:00 GMT

Well, the hints have been going out for a while now, and finally we can talk about this thing we've been working on for so long. At the PDC opening keynote today, we unveiled a number of things including Project LINQ. The Language Integrated Query framework (the LINQ Project) is a set of language extensions to C# and VB and a unified programming model that extends the .NET Framework to offer integrated querying for objects, databases and XML. Basically, instead of writing your queries in strings, you can now do them directly in the language of your choice.

Let's take a look at a simple code sample. Let's say there's a collection of Country objects called Countries. You can now get all countries with a population ofless than 1 million with a SQL-like syntax

Dim SmallCountries = Select Country _
From Country In Countries _
Where Country.Population < 1000000

The great thing about this is that it works over database data, XML or objects (anything that is IEnumerable). So, for those of you used to, for instance, Fox - though the syntax is familiar, the capabilities are much further reaching in your daily programming.

There will be a lot of blog posts by members of the C#, VB and various data teams all about this. Also, starting on Wednesday (depending on MSDN scheduling) there will be bits that can be downloaded to test this out. I'll be modifying this entry through the course of the day (or, more likely, night) to point to other blog entries on this topic.

Boy it's nice to be able to show this publicly now!